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Hi there! We're Ian, Elizabeth, Duncan, Anjali, hugh, Darren and Matt, and we're the editorial team of How We Get To Next - a non-profit project funded by the Gates Foundation. We're interested in exploring the intersections between science, technology and culture, and how those things are changing the future.
New ideas come from unexpected places - we're interested in the people doing important, fascinating work outside of the tiny part of the technology world on the west coast of the United States of America. Here's how we tell their stories:
We explore topics from Health to Identity, from Play to Afrofuturism.
We publish more than just non-fiction articles - you should check out the Wonderland podcast, for example, or our data visualisations about how we live and die, or our infogifs about the future of money, or our comic about how biological machines will help us live on Mars.
At the start of a new topic, we like to publish resources that help you get up to speed, so you can participate in the conversations even if you're not an expert. We've got everything you need to dive right in.
As of June 2017, we've begun to experiment with episodic storytelling formats. That means we're trying out new ways of telling stories over a longer period of time, building a narrative over a number of articles, podcast episodes, or other discrete chunks of content.
Here are some articles we've done that we think are particularly good at showing what we're interested in exploring:
Persisting in Dark Times: Lessons From a War Crimes Researcher [12-minute read]
The Most Subversive Way To Travel [13-minute read]
For Refugees, Soccer Helps Pass an Eternity in Limbo [12-minute read]
Without an Address, You're No One [7-minute read]
From the Andes to Outer Space: How One Company Saved Argentina's Space Program [13-minute read]
A Coal Miner's Daughter & The End of Coal [14-minute read]
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